Not that the forum's suffering too much actually but there have been a couple of troll posts or requests for particular posts to be deleted on the grounds of sensitive information.

I think barring maybe still doesn't work even if it was possible to run, unless you barred C0C0 after his big trolly post yesterday?

Aside from that:
- Threads don't seem to break often and at least they do snap back, but it would be nice if they never did.
- Posts sometimes just don't show up and CTRL+F5 seems to do nothing until after another post has been made. This is annoying.
- Logging in still has a few bugbears. I think it's something to do with conflicting cookies as a reboot of the browser generally fixes it.

- When you log in you go to a session page. This is irritating as you lose your current place.

++++ Related ++++

- Why can't we just have the AJAX stuff back like it used to be where you post and then it appears in the thread or where you log in and you're logged in, rather than having the site reload the page each time. Surely this will cut server load.

Okay, so people could miss replies but I think that system was preferable to reload-a-rama we have now.

I only use it at work to hide that I'm on the site when I shouldn't be...

I think it worked on my phone from what I remember. The main issues with it is the threads make no sense. They say @xxxx but those aren't links on that page so you can't tell which reply they're at and have to drop to normal view to see that.

What might be best (given the links wouldn't likely work well in a phone) is maybe a number against each post and then the @xxx with (post n) after it?

That's really the main downside as after posting I just click back 2 (and refresh for the same thread) or 3 times for the forum.

My feeling is that if you're going to use AJAX then use it a lot. Otherwise you may as well have the reply link redirect to a page that shows the post you're replying to and has a reply box, much like with notes.

AJAX should mean you can login midway through posting a thread and also that you don't need to leave the page you're on. The posting thing would be cool too.

but the news scroll a the top of the forum pages has REALLY slowed everything down.

It's not so bad on my desktop (I use Camino on Intel Mac), but on my iPhone it is actually getting to the point where I'm thinking about not coming here (which is a real shame because DiS and metacritic are the only sites I tend to go to during my commute): the page is incredibly sluggish and unresponsive when it comes to clicking links or scrolling up/down/sideways on the page. Also, pages take FOREVER to load (on iPhone) -- because of a snail-like ad server perhaps?

Replies aren't showing up for ages, the board keeps freezing and not showing new replies for me (it lasts about ten minutes unless I close my browser and re-open it) threads keep smashing up again all the time.

Where's it gone!? In days of old that was a key feature to my DiS experience.
Small thing in the side margin with Album covers, in a rectangle of recent reviews, ordered by review rating.
These are the kind of things that please me on a website such as this, everything i want to read about, neatly together in an accessible area.
I hoped and longed for it to return, and yet, no luck.
Has it been relocated? Definitely not dead weight on the side of an album review, more an opportunity for further reading. Bring it back? Or guide me to an alternative... Pretty please.

Not sure if this is a Firefox issue or what, but that's what I'm using, v. 16.0.2 - I'm unable to edit or add tags to a thread. I can search and see the pulldown list of suggestions but I can't actually use them.
Also, I know Lists is still in beta but I can't do a thing with it, where I see other users have nice collections already done. It just breaks when I try to search for something to add.

Also it is very annoying when you write a big long reply and it redirects to login then you login but you have lost your reply and have to navigate back to the thread. All of these could be avoided, pass your page source to the login form and redirect back. Also keep the reply in viewstate or session in this context!

and the site depends on ad revenue which relies on each user clicking each article at least once, so can't see that being reinstigated. I'm not sure what you mean about the side margin, can you MSPaint up a model to demonstrate?